Seniors Covered In New Medicare Policy For Bariatric Surgery
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Reversing its November proposal, CMS has decided to include patients aged 65 and older in its national coverage of bariatric surgery for the treatment of morbid obesity
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